We hope you'll join us for today's IIC Colloquium:
Social Networks+Game-Making: Rethinking Education
September 30, 2009, 4:00pm
Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Idit Harel Caperton
Founder and President, World Wide Workshop
Abstract
How can we cultivate and nurture today’s disengaged learners so that
they become more creative and computationally capable? How can we help
them to prosper in the high-tech global economy, able to manage
complex communication and large-scale projects that are collaborative
and computational? “We cannot wait for higher education or special
professional training to do this,” asserts our speaker. “We must start
young!” Using a groundbreaking new learning network called Globaloria,
the World Wide Workshop Foundation has demonstrated that practicing
the making of games and simulations, within a virtual design studio
embedded in a social learning system, can help students develop
sophisticated contemporary learning abilities.
Bio
Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D., is a pioneer in using new-media technology
for creative learning, innovation and globalization through
constructionist learning theory. She founded the World Wide Workshop
(
www.worldwideworkshop.org
) in 2004 to leverage her unique blend of award-winning research,
business acumen and leadership in new-media learning projects around
the world. Most recently, the foundation launched Globaloria to invent
ways of using social networking and Web 2.0 tools to teach game-making
and project-based learning to youth worldwide. Throughout the 1980s
and 1990s, Dr. Caperton conducted breakthrough research at the MIT
Media Lab that led to publishing the book Constructionism with Seymour
Papert. Her book Children Designers received the 1991 Outstanding Book
Award by the American Education Research Association. In 1995, she
founded MaMaMedia and launched
MaMaMedia.com,
ConnectedFamily.com, and
Papert.org. Pioneering kids' Internet media, MaMaMedia established
global distribution and advertizing partnerships and won numerous
honors, including: the Computerworld-Smithsonian Award (1999), the
Internet industry's coveted Global Information Infrastructure Award
(1999), and the 21st-Century Achievement Award from the Computerworld
Honors Program (2002). In 2002, she was honored by the Network of
Educators in Science and Technology and MIT "for devotion, innovation
and imagination in science and technology on behalf of children and
youth around the world." Selected MaMaMedia activities were recently
re-programmed for OLPC. Idit holds degrees from Tel Aviv University
(BA, 1982), Harvard University (EdM 1984; CAS 1985) and MIT Media Lab
(PhD, 1988).
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